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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Augustine, St.

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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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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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

21.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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May I always be worth of my friends.

27.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Piper, E. K.

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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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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Terence

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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.

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

40.

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

48.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Joubert, Joseph