Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

- White, Somers

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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.

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

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

11.

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

Crane, Frank

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

Proverb

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

Sallust

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

Bible

15.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

Randolf, G.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

21.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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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

29.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Digest, Readers

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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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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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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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

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John