Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

There is no friend as loyal as a book

- Hemingway, Ernest

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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

Addison, Joseph

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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

Schulberg, Budd

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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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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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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

Augustine, St.

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.