Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

- Johnson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

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

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

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Storey, David

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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

Walker, Alice

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Proverb, Indian

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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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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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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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert