Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

- Bach, Richard

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Ustinov, Peter

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

12.

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

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

Randolf, G.

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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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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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

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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

Proverb

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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

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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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

Proverb, Spanish

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.