Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Pepys, Samuel

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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

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

Francis De Sales, St.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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

Dickens, Charles

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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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

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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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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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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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

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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 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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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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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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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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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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Crane, Frank

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama