Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

- Paterson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Wein, Len

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

11.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Crane, Frank

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

Proverb, English

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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

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

Hitopadesa

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

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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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

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Crane, Frank

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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

Young, Brigham

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril