Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

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

Schulberg, Budd

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

10.

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

11.

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

12.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

13.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

14.

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

Digest, Readers

15.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

16.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

18.

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

19.

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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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

21.

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

Homer

22.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

23.

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

Fuller, Thomas

24.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

25.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

26.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

27.

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

28.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

30.

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

31.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

33.

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Dickens, Charles

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

37.

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

Proverb, Indian

38.

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

39.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

Aristotle

41.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

42.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

43.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

44.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

47.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert