Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Buscaglia, Leo

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Crane, Frank

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

10.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

16.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

19.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

20.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

21.

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

22.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

23.

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

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

27.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

28.

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

29.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

30.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

32.

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Proverb, English

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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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

46.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.