Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

- Weil, Simone

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

10.

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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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Seneca

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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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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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

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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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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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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

Gay, John

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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Make friends before you need them

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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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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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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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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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.