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

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Addison, Joseph

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

11.

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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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 greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Jerome, St.

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

Proverb, Russian

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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... 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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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

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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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

33.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Aristotle

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Talmud, The

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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