Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

- Euripides

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Alcott, Louisa May

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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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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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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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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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

43.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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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

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil