Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

- Saying, Jewish

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Breton, Nicholas

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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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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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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

18.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

19.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bach, Richard

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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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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Clark, Esther M.

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Schulberg, Budd

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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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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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

Ovid

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Hazlitt, William

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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Make friends before you need them

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Aristotle

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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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

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len