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

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

Storey, David

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

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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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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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Make friends before you need them

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Your friend is your needs answered.

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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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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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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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.