Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Schulberg, Budd

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Godospeed, Edgar

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Augustine, St.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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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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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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

Aristotle

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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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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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Russian

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.