Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Kaufman, Lois L.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Wein, Len

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ovid

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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

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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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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson