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

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

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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

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

Proverb, Indian

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

Proverb, Indian

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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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

13.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Digest, Readers

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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

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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

Saying, Hasidic

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

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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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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

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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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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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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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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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.

43.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, Jewish

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Dyke, Henry Van