Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Chambers, Oswald

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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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

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

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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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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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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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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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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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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

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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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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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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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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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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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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

Larson, Doug

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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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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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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.