Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

- Wycherley, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

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

Jerome, St.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Santayana, George

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

10.

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

11.

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

Proverb, Russian

12.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

13.

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

15.

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

16.

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

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

Uris, Leon

19.

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

20.

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

21.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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

Home, Henry

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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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

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

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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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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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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

32.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

33.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

34.

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

35.

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

Mermet, Claude

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

38.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

41.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

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

45.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

49.

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

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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