Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

- Proverb, Greek

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Bukowski, Charles

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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

Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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 true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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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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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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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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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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

Powell, John Enoch

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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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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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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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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.

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

Mermet, Claude

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Sallust

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

Bach, Richard

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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.