Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Waugh, Evelyn

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Schulberg, Budd

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

Aristotle

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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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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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.

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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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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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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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty