Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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Make friends before you need them

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Wycherley, William

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Lee, Robert E.

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

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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

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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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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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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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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.

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William