Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

- Johnson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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

Pythagoras

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

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

Proverb, English

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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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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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Uris, Leon

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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

Crane, Frank