Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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

Branagh, Kenneth

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Young, Brigham

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

Storey, David

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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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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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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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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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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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.