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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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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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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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

Bach, Richard

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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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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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Randolf, G.

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Homer

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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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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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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 but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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 like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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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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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.