Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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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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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.