Motivational Quotes

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Dyke, Henry Van

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Holz, Julie

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Toast, Irish

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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.

20.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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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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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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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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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb

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

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, 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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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Addison, Joseph

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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