Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

Make friends before you need them

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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

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

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Aristotle

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Mermet, Claude

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

Uris, Leon

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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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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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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

Addison, Joseph

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin