Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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

Theocritus

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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

Bukowski, Charles

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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

Bible

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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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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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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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 come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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

White, Somers