Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

- Proverb, Indian

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Bible

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Randolf, G.

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

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

10.

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

11.

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

Storey, David

12.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

14.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

15.

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

Proverb, Russian

16.

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

O'Malley, Austin

17.

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

Talmud, The

18.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

19.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

21.

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

22.

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

Schulberg, Budd

23.

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

24.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

25.

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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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

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

29.

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

30.

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

31.

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

32.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

33.

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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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

43.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

48.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

49.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.