Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is Love without his wings!

- Byron, Lord

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Saying, Hasidic

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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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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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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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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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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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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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.

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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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

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Johnson, Samuel

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Proverb

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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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.