Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Digest, Readers

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

10.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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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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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Gay, John

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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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 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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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Proverb, Indian

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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

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

Homer