Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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

... 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

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Woolf, Virginia

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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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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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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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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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bible

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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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.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.