Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Hsieh, Tehyi

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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

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

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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

White, Somers

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Russian

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita