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

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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

Proverb

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

15.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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

Thackeray, William M.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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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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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.