Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

- Lee, Robert E.

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.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

May I always be worth of my friends.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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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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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.

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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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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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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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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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Addison, Joseph

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Clark, Esther M.

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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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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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... 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

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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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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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Aristotle

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Make friends before you need them

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

Bible

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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

Godospeed, Edgar