Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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

O'Malley, Austin

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Clark, Esther M.

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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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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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

Mermet, Claude

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

Aristotle

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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