Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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

Mizner, Wilson

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

18.

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

20.

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

Lee, Robert E.

21.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

22.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

27.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

30.

May I always be worth of my friends.

31.

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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

Ustinov, Peter

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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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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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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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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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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Walker, Alice

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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

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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 friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam