Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Crane, Frank

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

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Make friends before you need them

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

Seneca

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Piper, E. K.

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Lee, Robert E.

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Breton, Nicholas

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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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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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same