Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

- O'Malley, Austin

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bible

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.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

10.

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

Euripides

11.

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Winchell, Walter

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

21.

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

23.

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

24.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

25.

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

Proverb, Russian

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

28.

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Quarles, Francis

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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.

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

Terence

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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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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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

48.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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