Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

- Woolf, Virginia

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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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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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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 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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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

Storey, David

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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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.

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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