Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

- Brown, Pam

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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

10.

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

12.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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 always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Ovid

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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Jerome, St.

35.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Theocritus

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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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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

44.

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

Aristotle

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.