Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

My friends, there are no friends.

- Chanel, Coco

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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.

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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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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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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

Ovid

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

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Breton, Nicholas

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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.

39.

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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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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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse