Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

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

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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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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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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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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

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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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

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Euripides

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

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

Larson, Doug

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

Breton, Nicholas

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

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