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

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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.

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

Santayana, George

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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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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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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

Digest, Readers

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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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

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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

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Yeats, William Butler