Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

- Bach, Richard

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Bible

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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.

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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

18.

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

Talmud, The

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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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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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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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Homer

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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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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Make friends before you need them

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

31.

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Proverb, Spanish

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Bach, Richard

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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

Franklin, Benjamin