Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Perry, Ralph B.

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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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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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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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

Storey, David

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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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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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Rothschild, William E.

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Crane, Frank

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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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Make friends before you need them

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish