Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Short judgments make long friends.

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Ustinov, Peter

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

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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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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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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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

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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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