Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

- Nathan, George Jean

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Thoreau, Henry David

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

11.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

13.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

18.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

19.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

20.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

21.

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

Proverb

22.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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

27.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

28.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

29.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

36.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

38.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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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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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

48.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor