Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Proverb, English

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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.

Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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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 difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Piper, E. K.

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Terence

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Gay, John

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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 friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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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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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank