Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

- Eliot, T. S.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Thoreau, Henry David

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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

Prentice, George D.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Breton, Nicholas

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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 single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

16.

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

Seneca

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

29.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

30.

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

Schulberg, Budd

31.

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

32.

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

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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

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.