Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

- Bible

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Lamb, Charles

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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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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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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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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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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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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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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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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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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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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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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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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

Jerome, St.

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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

Proverb

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

Storey, David

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

Aristotle

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle