Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

- Owens, Jesse

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Uris, Leon

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Johnson, Samuel

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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

Hazlitt, William

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

10.

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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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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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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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.

15.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

16.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

17.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

20.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

21.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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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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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

28.

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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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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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

35.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

Proverb, English

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

Aristotle

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

Gay, John

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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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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Home, Henry

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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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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

48.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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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