Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Life is nothing without friendship.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Make friends before you need them

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

Ebers, George

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Breton, Nicholas

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

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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

Crane, Frank

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

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

12.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Santayana, George

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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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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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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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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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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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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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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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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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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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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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

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