Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Prentice, George D.

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

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

10.

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

11.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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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

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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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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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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.

Weil, Simone

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Woolf, Virginia

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.