Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

- Brown, Pam

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

4.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

12.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

18.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

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

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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

23.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

24.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

25.

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

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

29.

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

32.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

35.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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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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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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

40.

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

Walker, Alice

41.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

44.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

45.

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

Bach, Richard

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

47.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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