Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

- Walton, Izaak

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Quarles, Francis

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

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Talmud, The

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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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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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.