Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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

Watson, Thomas J.

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

Proverb, Chinese

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

10.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jerome, St.

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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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 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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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.

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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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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Budgell, Eustace

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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

Terence

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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

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

Winchell, Walter

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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

Proverb, Russian

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.