Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

- Ustinov, Peter

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Sicilian

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Quarles, Francis

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Augustine, St.

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Lee, Robert E.

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

Proverb, English

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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Bible

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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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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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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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Holz, Julie

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Proverb

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Make friends before you need them

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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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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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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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