Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

- Leonard, John

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

Byrnes, James F.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Ebers, George

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

16.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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

23.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

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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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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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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 hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca