Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

13.

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

Hazlitt, William

14.

May I always be worth of my friends.

15.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

18.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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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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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

28.

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

FeNelon, Francois

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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

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

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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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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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

42.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

43.

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

Talmud, The

44.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

46.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

Pepys, Samuel

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John