Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Theocritus

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

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

Bible

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

15.

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

16.

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

Tate, Nahum

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

20.

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

21.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

23.

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

Saying, Hasidic

24.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

25.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bach, Richard

27.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

28.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

30.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

31.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

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

Wein, Len

34.

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

Holz, Julie

35.

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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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

39.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

40.

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

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

42.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

43.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

44.

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

45.

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

Blake, William

46.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

48.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William