Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

- Jerome, St.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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

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.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

10.

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

FeNelon, Francois

11.

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

13.

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

14.

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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

20.

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

22.

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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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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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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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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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

36.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Holz, Julie

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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

Waugh, Evelyn

44.

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

47.

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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