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

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Prentice, George D.

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

Proverb, Spanish

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Ustinov, Peter

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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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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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Jerome, St.

33.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Make friends before you need them

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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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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Randolf, G.

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.