Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

- Jerome, St.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset