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

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Barrymore, Ethel

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

11.

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

Theocritus

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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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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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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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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

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gay, John

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, Indian