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

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Blake, William

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Hazlitt, William

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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 friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Proverb, English

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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.

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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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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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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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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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Talmud, The

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

Proverb

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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.