Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Bach, Richard

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Mermet, Claude

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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

Proverb

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Euripides

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

O'Malley, Austin

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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

La Fontaine, Jean De