Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

- Bloch, Arthur

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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

Chambers, Oswald

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

11.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

14.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

17.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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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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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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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

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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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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Breton, Nicholas

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Terence

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

39.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

43.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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

Jerome, St.

49.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English