Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

- Augustine, St.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Epicurus

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

Seneca

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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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 hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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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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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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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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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Homer

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

Crane, Frank

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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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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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard 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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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.