Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

- Proverb, English

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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

Ustinov, Peter

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Saying, Hasidic

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

44.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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

Euripides

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.