Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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

Wein, Len

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Randolf, G.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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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.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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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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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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

25.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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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 always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Powell, John Enoch

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Young, Brigham

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich