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

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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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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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

13.

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Jerome, St.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

27.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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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.

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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

Saying, Hasidic

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Addison, Joseph

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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 are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von