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

May I always be worth of my friends.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Homer

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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

Proverb

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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.

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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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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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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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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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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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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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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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Aristotle

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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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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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh