Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Proverb, Jewish

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

Hazlitt, William

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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

Ustinov, Peter

10.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

11.

And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

12.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

13.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

14.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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

Darwin, Charles R.

18.

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

21.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

24.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

25.

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

Python, Monty

26.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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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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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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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 is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

39.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

40.

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

42.

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

Digest, Readers

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

45.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

48.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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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

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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