Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

- Quarles, Francis

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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

Tate, Nahum

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Make friends before you need them

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Crane, Frank

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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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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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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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Schulberg, Budd

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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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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Breton, Nicholas

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts