Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

- Brodsky, Joseph

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Hitopadesa

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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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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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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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

30.

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

Wycherley, William

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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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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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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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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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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 best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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

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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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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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

Proverb

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.