Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

- Wordsworth, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, English

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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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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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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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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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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 one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Jerome, St.

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil