Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

- Brookner, Anita

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

Sallust

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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

Piper, E. K.

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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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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Breton, Nicholas

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.