Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Mansfield, Katherine

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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

Gay, John

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

Mermet, Claude

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

O'Malley, Austin

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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

Byrnes, James F.

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.