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

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

Bukowski, Charles

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Bible

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

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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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 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.

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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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

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bach, Richard

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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In a friend you find a second self.