Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Seneca

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

Aristotle

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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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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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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

Proverb, Russian

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Aristotle

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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