Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Proverb, Indian

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Seneca

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Epicurus

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

17.

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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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

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

21.

Make friends before you need them

22.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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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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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

30.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

38.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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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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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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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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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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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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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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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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

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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.