Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

- Proverb, Greek

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Pythagoras

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Proverb

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Uris, Leon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Seneca

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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May I always be worth of my friends.

23.

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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 nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

41.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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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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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo