Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Joubert, Joseph

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Piper, E. K.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Bible

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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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 gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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

Uris, Leon

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Ebers, George

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

20.

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

Proverb, English

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

30.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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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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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

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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

Auden, W. H.

36.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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

Gay, John

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, Sicilian