Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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 and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

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

Randolf, G.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Yeats, William Butler

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Hazlitt, William

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Crane, Frank

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle