Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Rothschild, William E.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Ustinov, Peter

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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

Home, Henry

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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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Wycherley, William

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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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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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

Crane, Frank

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis