Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

- Randolf, G.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Billings, Josh

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

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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

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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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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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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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 an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Wein, Len

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.