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

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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

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

Bach, Richard

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

Ustinov, Peter

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Proverb, English

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Homer

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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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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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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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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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Aristotle

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Proverb, Spanish

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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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

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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides