Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

- Penn, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

10.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Randolf, G.

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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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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil