Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Proverb, English

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Aristotle

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

Storey, David

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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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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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