Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

- Weldon, Fay

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Swift, Jonathan

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Euripides

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

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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.

10.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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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

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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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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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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

Wein, Len

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Aristotle

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco