Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

- Burleigh, Lord

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

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.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Larson, Doug

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

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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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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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

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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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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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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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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mermet, Claude

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Crane, Frank

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

Holz, Julie

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

Augustine, St.

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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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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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

Python, Monty