Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Mermet, Claude

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Aristotle

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Barrymore, Ethel

14.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Gay, John

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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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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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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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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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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

Lee, Robert E.

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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

Young, Brigham

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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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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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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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