Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Johnson, Samuel

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Aristotle

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Bukowski, Charles

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

Crane, Frank

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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 man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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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May I always be worth of my friends.

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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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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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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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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian