Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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Make friends before you need them

13.

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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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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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

Proverb, English

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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.

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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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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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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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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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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

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Prentice, George D.

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel