Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The time to make friends is before you need them.

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Euripides

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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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

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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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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 Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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

Storey, David

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Ovid

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

Digest, Readers

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

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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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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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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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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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