Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

- Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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.

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

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

10.

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

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

Storey, David

12.

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

Clark, Esther M.

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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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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

19.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Proverb, English

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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

Aristotle

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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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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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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 puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

41.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine