Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

We die as often as we lose a friend.

- Syrus, Publilius

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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.

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Crane, Frank

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Hazlitt, William

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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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

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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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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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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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 you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Make friends before you need them

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Mizner, Wilson

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Friends are proved by adversity.