Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Barrymore, Ethel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Hazlitt, William

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

FeNelon, Francois

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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

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

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

Young, Brigham

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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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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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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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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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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

25.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Homer

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

Pythagoras

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

Epicurus

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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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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers