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

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Perry, Ralph B.

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

10.

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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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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

13.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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

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

Billings, Josh

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

30.

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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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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

Holz, Julie

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

Augustine, St.

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

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

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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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

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