Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

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

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

Branagh, Kenneth

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Homer

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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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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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Machado, Aaron

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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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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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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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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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

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

Uris, Leon

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

Augustine, St.

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.