Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

- Proverb, Nigerian

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Talmud, The

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Uris, Leon

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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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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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

Schulberg, Budd

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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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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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.