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

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

Fuller, Thomas

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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

Seneca

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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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

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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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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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius