Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

- Johnson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Santayana, George

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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

Theocritus

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Quarles, Francis

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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