Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

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

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Crane, Frank

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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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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

Aristotle