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

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

Toast, Irish

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

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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

Aristotle

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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

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bukowski, Charles

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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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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 man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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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

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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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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

34.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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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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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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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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

Euripides

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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

Franklin, Benjamin