Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

- Uris, Leon

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Tate, Nahum

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Bible

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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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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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

Ustinov, Peter

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

Piper, E. K.

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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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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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Auden, W. H.

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

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Crane, Frank

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

Proverb, Arabian

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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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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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks