Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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.

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

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

Crane, Frank

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

O'Malley, Austin

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Proverb, English

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Proverb

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Proverb

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Larson, Doug

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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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

Breton, Nicholas

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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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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Meltzer, Bernard