Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Ones oldest friend is the best.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Homer

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

10.

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

11.

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

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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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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

14.

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

15.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

16.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

17.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

18.

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, English

22.

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

23.

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

24.

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.

25.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

26.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

27.

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.

28.

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 is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

30.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

Edwards, Robert C.

32.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

33.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

35.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

39.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

40.

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

41.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

42.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

43.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

44.

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

45.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

46.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

47.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

48.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

49.

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas