Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

- Branagh, Kenneth

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about 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

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Auden, W. H.

21.

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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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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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Euripides

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

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Breton, Nicholas

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

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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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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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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa