Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Mermet, Claude

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

Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wycherley, William

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

Godospeed, Edgar

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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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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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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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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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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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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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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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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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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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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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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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

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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