Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

Epicurus

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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

Tate, Nahum

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

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Piper, E. K.

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

Theocritus

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

17.

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

18.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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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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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

28.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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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

31.

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

32.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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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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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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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

38.

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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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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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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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.