Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Without friends no one would choose to live.

- Aristotle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bible

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

Bukowski, Charles

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Piper, E. K.

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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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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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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

31.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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.

Penn, William

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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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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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

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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

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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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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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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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