Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

- Luther, Martin

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Storey, David

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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

Bach, Richard

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

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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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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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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

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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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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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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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Terence

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Crane, Frank

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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