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 have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

10.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Gibran, Kahlil

22.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.