Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Life is nothing without friendship.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

10.

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

11.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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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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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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

Branagh, Kenneth

21.

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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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

23.

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

27.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Proverb, Indian

29.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Tate, Nahum

31.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

33.

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

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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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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

36.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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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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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Quarles, Francis