Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

- Darwin, Charles R.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Theocritus

We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

Make friends before you need them

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.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Blake, William

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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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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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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

Augustine, St.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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