Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend is known when needed.

- Proverb, Arabian

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, Jewish

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Wein, Len

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

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Proverb, Jewish

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Bukowski, Charles

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Proverb, Russian

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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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.

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

Bach, Richard

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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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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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gay, John

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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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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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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