Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

- Richter, Jean Paul

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

O'Malley, Austin

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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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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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

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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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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

25.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Aristotle

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

Ustinov, Peter

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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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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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

39.

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

Python, Monty

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.