Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

- Dickens, Charles

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Terence

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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

Digest, Readers

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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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

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...