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

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

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Bukowski, Charles

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

Bach, Richard

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

12.

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

13.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Machado, Aaron

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Talmud, The

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

31.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Gay, John

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

37.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

38.

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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Crane, Frank

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.