Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Ustinov, Peter

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

10.

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

11.

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

12.

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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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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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Holz, Julie

19.

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

25.

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

28.

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

29.

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

32.

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

Bible

33.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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

37.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

43.

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

44.

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

Bukowski, Charles

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

Epicurus

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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