Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Francis De Sales, St.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Schulberg, Budd

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

May I always be worth of my friends.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Euripides

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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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's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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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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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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

Lee, Robert E.

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

Wycherley, William

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Quarles, Francis

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

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo