Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

- Addison, Joseph

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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.

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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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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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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

Proverb, English

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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