Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

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Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Thackeray, William M.

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Sallust

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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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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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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.