Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

- Euripides

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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.

Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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

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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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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Storey, David

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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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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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.