Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bible

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

Epicurus

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

25.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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

Larson, Doug

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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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

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

Addison, Joseph

48.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo