Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Theocritus

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Mermet, Claude

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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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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Aristotle

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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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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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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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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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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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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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

Piper, E. K.

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi