Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Holz, Julie

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Richter, Jean Paul

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

11.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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

Crane, Frank

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

17.

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

18.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

19.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Augustine, St.

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

28.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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

Toast, Irish

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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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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Epicurus

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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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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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Ebers, George

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

Pepys, Samuel

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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