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

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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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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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Bible

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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 friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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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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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 to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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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.