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

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Johnson, Samuel

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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

Proverb, Russian

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

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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

Proverb, English

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

Breton, Nicholas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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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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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

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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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 greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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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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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Wycherley, William

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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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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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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

Hitopadesa