Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

- Francis De Sales, St.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, Arabian

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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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

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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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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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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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.