Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

- Rogers, Will

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

11.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Proverb, Indian

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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

31.

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

32.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Bach, Richard

38.

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

Ustinov, Peter

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

Fuller, Thomas

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near