Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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 friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

Make friends before you need them

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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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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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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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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

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

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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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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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Talmud, The

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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