Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

- Proverb, Jewish

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Ustinov, Peter

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Theocritus

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

10.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

13.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

14.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

15.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

16.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

17.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

18.

Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

24.

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

Swift, Jonathan

25.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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

31.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

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

White, Somers

33.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

34.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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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.

37.

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Larson, Doug

40.

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

41.

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

42.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Hitopadesa

44.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

47.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides