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

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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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 am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Proverb, English

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

32.

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

Sallust

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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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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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

44.

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

Crane, Frank

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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