Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bible

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

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

Tate, Nahum

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.

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

Luther, Martin

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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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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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Schulberg, Budd

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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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

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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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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

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Jewish

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa