Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Proverb

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Epicurus

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wycherley, William

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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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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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

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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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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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Saying, Hasidic

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

Storey, David

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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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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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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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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.