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

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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

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

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

Wein, Len

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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

Walker, Alice

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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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.

39.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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

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

White, Somers

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out