Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

- Kaufman, Lois L.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Waugh, Evelyn

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Proverb, English

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

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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.

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis