Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Santayana, George

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

10.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

11.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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

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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.

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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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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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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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

Homer

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

24.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

25.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

28.

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

Proverb, English

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

31.

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

40.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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