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

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

Proverb, English

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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

Proverb, Jewish

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Thackeray, William M.

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.

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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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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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Bible

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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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 true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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

Luther, Martin

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 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