Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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.

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

Saying, Hasidic

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

10.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

15.

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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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

19.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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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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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Powell, John Enoch

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Piper, E. K.

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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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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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Larson, Doug

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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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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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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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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest