Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Digest, Readers

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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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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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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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 a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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

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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.