Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

- Twain, Mark

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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

O'Malley, Austin

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Wein, Len

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Seneca

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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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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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

20.

May I always be worth of my friends.

21.

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.

22.

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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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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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

29.

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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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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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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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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Bukowski, Charles

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Proverb

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon