Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

We die as often as we lose a friend.

- Syrus, Publilius

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Johnson, Samuel

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Wein, Len

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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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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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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Quarles, Francis

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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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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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Breton, Nicholas

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Proverb

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.