Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Theocritus

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

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.

10.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

24.

Make friends before you need them

25.

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

Python, Monty

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Byrnes, James F.

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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

Santayana, George

45.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian