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

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Bennett, Arnold

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Mermet, Claude

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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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

Randolf, G.

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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

O'Malley, Austin

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Gay, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Bach, Richard

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wein, Len

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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

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.