Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Home, Henry

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

11.

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

12.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

13.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

15.

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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.

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

Terence

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

22.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Crane, Frank

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

25.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, English

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

29.

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

Bible

30.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

31.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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

Mizner, Wilson

33.

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Wycherley, William

36.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

41.

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

43.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

44.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo