Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Uris, Leon

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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.

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

20.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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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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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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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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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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

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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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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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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.