Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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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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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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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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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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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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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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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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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

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher