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

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

Home, Henry

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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

Gibran, Kahlil

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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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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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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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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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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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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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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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 desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Make friends before you need them

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

Randolf, G.

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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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