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

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

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

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

Tate, Nahum

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Billings, Josh

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

10.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

24.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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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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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 most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

32.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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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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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

43.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Piper, E. K.