Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- White, Elwyn Brooks

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Lewis, Joe E.

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chambers, Oswald

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

11.

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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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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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

17.

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

24.

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

Python, Monty

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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

Lamb, Charles

30.

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

31.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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My friends, there are no friends.