Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Fuller, Thomas

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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.

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

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

Proverb, English

11.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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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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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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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

28.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

29.

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

Machado, Aaron

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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

Rothschild, William E.

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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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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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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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.