Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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.

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

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Powell, John Enoch

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Talmud, The

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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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

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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 once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bukowski, Charles

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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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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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, Russian