Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

- Mccormack, Mark

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Holz, Julie

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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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 time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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

Crane, Frank

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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