Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Walker, Alice

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Addison, Joseph

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Ustinov, Peter

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.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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

Gay, John

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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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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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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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 is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

24.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Proverb, English

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

Lee, Robert E.

29.

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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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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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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Young, Brigham

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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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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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Aristotle

42.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Saying, Hasidic

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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 friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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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 mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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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.

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb