Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

- Crowell, Grace Noll

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Machado, Aaron

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Piper, E. K.

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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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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Make friends before you need them

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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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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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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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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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Theocritus

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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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

Homer

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.