Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

- Leonard, John

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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

Sallust

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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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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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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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

Euripides

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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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 loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

Proverb, Russian

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Aristotle

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.