Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

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Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Auden, W. H.

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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

Crane, Frank

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

11.

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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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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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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

Holz, Julie

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Jerome, St.

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Terence

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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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

44.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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