Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Addison, Joseph

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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

Luther, Martin

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

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Machado, Aaron

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

Make friends before you need them

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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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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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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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 the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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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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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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

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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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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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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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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 always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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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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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

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