Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

Woolf, Virginia

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

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

Seneca

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

Rothschild, William E.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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 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

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Holz, Julie

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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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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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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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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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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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Saying, Hasidic

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Tate, Nahum