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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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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 good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Byrnes, James F.

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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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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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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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.