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

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Randolf, G.

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

Bukowski, Charles

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

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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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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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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

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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... 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

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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 don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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

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