Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Ustinov, Peter

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Talmud, The

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

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

Proverb, Indian

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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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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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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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

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

39.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

44.

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

Jerome, St.

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Addison, Joseph