Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

- Kaufman, Lois L.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

10.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

O'Malley, Austin

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

19.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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

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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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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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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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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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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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.

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar