Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

- Prentice, George D.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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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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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Gay, John

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Terence

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

43.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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.