Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Ebers, George

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Chambers, Oswald

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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

Larson, Doug

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Breton, Nicholas

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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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

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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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.

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Clark, Esther M.

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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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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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

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