Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Home, Henry

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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.

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

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Quarles, Francis

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

Bible

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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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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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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

Bible

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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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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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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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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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco