Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

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

Aristotle

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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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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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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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

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

Tate, Nahum

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Bible

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bukowski, Charles

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.