Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Piper, E. K.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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

Thoreau, Henry David

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Euripides

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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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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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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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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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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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Saying, Hasidic

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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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.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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

Uris, Leon