Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

- Alcott, Louisa May

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

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

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

Luther, Martin

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

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

10.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

12.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

14.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

16.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

17.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

22.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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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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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

27.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Bukowski, Charles

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

34.

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

35.

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

42.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

43.

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

Bach, Richard

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

46.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar