Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

- Wordsworth, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Talmud, The

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Machado, Aaron

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

18.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jerome, St.

32.

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

Uris, Leon

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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

Aristotle

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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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