Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Lee, Robert E.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

10.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

11.

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

Wein, Len

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

16.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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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

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

27.

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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

Young, Brigham

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

37.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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

Breton, Nicholas