Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

- Leonard, John

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Walker, Alice

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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.

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

May I always be worth of my friends.

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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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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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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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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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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bukowski, Charles

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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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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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

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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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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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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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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.

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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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