Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- O'Malley, Austin

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Jerome, St.

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, Indian

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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

Sallust

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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

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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