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

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

Larson, Doug

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

May I always be worth of my friends.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Toast, Irish

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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

Breton, Nicholas

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Ustinov, Peter

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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

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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

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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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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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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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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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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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.

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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

Storey, David

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor