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

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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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.

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Walker, Alice

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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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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Homer

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

Hazlitt, William

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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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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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.