Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Thoreau, Henry David

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Jerome, St.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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

Tate, Nahum

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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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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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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

Young, Brigham

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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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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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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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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