Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Storey, David

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

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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

Billings, Josh

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb, Jewish

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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

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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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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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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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

Proverb, Indian

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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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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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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Baker, Nicholson

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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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.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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

Proverb, Indian

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