Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Hubbard, Elbert

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

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

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

Crane, Frank

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Wein, Len

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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.

18.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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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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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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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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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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Storey, David

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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

40.

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel