Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

In comradeship is danger countered best.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Proverb, Indian

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 do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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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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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Homer

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Gay, John

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Euripides

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum