Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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

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

Epicurus

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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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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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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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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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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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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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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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

26.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Proverb, Russian

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Talmud, The

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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

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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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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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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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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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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 real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma