Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

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

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.

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Clark, Esther M.

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

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Swift, Jonathan

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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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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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Epicurus

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Lee, Robert E.

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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

Wein, Len

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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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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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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

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish