Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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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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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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.