Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Proverb, Indian

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Schulberg, Budd

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

FeNelon, Francois

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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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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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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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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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

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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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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 sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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

Prentice, George D.

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gay, John

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Hitopadesa

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