Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Woolf, Virginia

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

10.

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

12.

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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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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

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

Proverb, Russian

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

33.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Bible

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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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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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.

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

43.

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

Crane, Frank

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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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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

47.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica