Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Ebers, George

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

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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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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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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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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Hitopadesa

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Joubert, Joseph