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

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

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

Holz, Julie

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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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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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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.

15.

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Python, Monty

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

Bukowski, Charles

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.