Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Sallust

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

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

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

10.

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

11.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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

Proverb

15.

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

18.

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

19.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Indian

24.

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

25.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

26.

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

Quarles, Francis

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

31.

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Aristotle

35.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

37.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

38.

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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

Saying, Hasidic

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

42.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

44.

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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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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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish