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

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

Woolf, Virginia

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

Lincoln, Abraham

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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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

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Saying, Hasidic

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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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.