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

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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.

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

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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

Proverb, Arabian

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

13.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

14.

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

Aristotle

15.

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

16.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

17.

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

18.

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

19.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

20.

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

21.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

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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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

24.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Python, Monty

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

Chambers, Oswald

28.

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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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

30.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

31.

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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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

33.

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

35.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

41.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Proverb, Russian

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.