Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

- Epicurus

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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.

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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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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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Proverb, Russian

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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

Billings, Josh

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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

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

Joubert, Joseph