Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

- Euripides

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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.

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.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Tate, Nahum

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Holz, Julie

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, Indian

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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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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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

31.

May I always be worth of my friends.

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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