Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Life is nothing without friendship.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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.

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

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

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

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

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

Proverb

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bible

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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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.

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson