Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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

Swift, Jonathan

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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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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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Gay, John

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

Bible

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

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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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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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Larson, Doug

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.