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

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

O'Malley, Austin

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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

Aristotle

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

Crane, Frank

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

10.

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

Yeats, William Butler

11.

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

12.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

17.

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

18.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

21.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

Quarles, Francis

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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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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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 one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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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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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

Holz, Julie

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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

Digest, Readers

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

Franklin, Benjamin