Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

- Young, Brigham

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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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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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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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Gay, John

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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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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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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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

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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

Randolf, G.

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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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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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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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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