Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

- Johnson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Bukowski, Charles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Holz, Julie

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

Terence

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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

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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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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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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