Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

- Proverb, Nigerian

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

Make friends before you need them

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

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Augustine, St.

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Python, Monty

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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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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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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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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

Proverb, Jewish

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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

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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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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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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