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

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

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

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Hazlitt, William

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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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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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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