Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Terence

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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.

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

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

11.

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Home, Henry

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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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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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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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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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Bible

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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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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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Mermet, Claude

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

Randolf, G.

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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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.

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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

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David