Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

- Bacon, Francis

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Ustinov, Peter

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Luther, Martin

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Holz, Julie

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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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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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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

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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

Woolf, Virginia

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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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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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

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Wycherley, William

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

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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 good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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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