Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Clark, Esther M.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Ebers, George

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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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

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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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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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

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Saying, Hasidic

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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

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Bible

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

Crane, Frank

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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

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

Bach, Richard

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo