Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

- Walpole, Horace

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

3.

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

4.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

8.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

9.

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

10.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

11.

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

Proverb

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

15.

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Budgell, Eustace

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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 mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

21.

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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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

26.

May I always be worth of my friends.

27.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

29.

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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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

32.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

34.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

35.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

37.

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

Seneca

38.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

39.

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

40.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

42.

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

44.

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

46.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Prentice, George D.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar