Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

- Nathan, George Jean

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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

Tate, Nahum

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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

Mermet, Claude

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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

Uris, Leon

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

Proverb, Russian

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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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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May I always be worth of my friends.

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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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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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

Holz, Julie

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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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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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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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

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Sallust