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

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Fuller, Thomas

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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

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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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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 but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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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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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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.