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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

O'Malley, Austin

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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

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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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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lee, Robert E.

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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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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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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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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Joubert, Joseph

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Byron, Lord

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Aristotle

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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