Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

- Delille, Jacques

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

2.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

6.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

8.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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.

10.

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

11.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

13.

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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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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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

17.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

18.

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

19.

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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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

22.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

24.

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

25.

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

Addison, Joseph

26.

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

27.

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

28.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

29.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

30.

May I always be worth of my friends.

31.

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

Crane, Frank

32.

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

Mizner, Wilson

33.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar