Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

- Seneca

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gay, John

11.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

16.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

FeNelon, Francois

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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

Proverb, Jewish

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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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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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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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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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Tate, Nahum

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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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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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Lee, Robert E.

45.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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

Proverb

47.

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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark