Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Make friends before you need them

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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

Ebers, George

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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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

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

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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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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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

Hazlitt, William

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb

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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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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.