Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Uris, Leon

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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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

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Talmud, The

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

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Wycherley, William

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

27.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Make friends before you need them

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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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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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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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

Holz, Julie

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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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Bible

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

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jerome, St.

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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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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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish