Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Bible

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

15.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Proverb, English

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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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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

22.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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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 Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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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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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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 a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

40.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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 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.

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.