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

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wein, Len

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

Crane, Frank

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

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

White, Somers

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Winchell, Walter

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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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

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.