Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mermet, Claude

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

Augustine, St.

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Aristotle

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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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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gay, John

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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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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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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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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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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

Schulberg, Budd

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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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 hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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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.

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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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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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth