Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

- Walpole, Horace

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Randolf, G.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Terence

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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

Walker, Alice

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Proverb, English

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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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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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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

Crane, Frank

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

Tate, Nahum

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

Seneca

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von