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

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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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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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett