Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

- Wycherley, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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

Theocritus

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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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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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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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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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Talmud, The

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

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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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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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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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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Terence

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.