Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

10.

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

Terence

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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

14.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Saying, Hasidic

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Blake, William

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

49.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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