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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Tate, Nahum

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Bukowski, Charles

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

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Walker, Alice

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

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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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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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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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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Holz, Julie

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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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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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