Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Clark, Esther M.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Homer

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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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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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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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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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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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.

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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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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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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 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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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Crane, Frank

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Mizner, Wilson

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proverb, Indian

41.

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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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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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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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas