Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

Proverb, English

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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.

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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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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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

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Make friends before you need them

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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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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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

38.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

39.

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Terence

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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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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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