Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

- Buscaglia, Leo

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Proverb, Chinese

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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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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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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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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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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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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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Jerome, 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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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Storey, David

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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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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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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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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

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William