Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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

Wycherley, William

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

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Euripides

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Homer

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

Proverb, Indian

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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

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

Talmud, The

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

O'Malley, Austin

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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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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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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

Theocritus

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Russian

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel