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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

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Randolf, G.

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Gay, John

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian