Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

- Tate, Nahum

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

2.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

4.

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

Proverb, Chinese

5.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

6.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

7.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

8.

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

9.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

10.

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

Swift, Jonathan

11.

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

13.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

14.

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

15.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

16.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

19.

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

20.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

21.

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

22.

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

23.

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

24.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

25.

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

Mizner, Wilson

26.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

27.

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

Randolf, G.

28.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

29.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

30.

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

31.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

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

Powell, John Enoch

33.

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

34.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

35.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

38.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

40.

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

41.

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

42.

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

43.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

44.

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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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

46.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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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.

49.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same