Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

- Humphrey, Hubert H.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Watson, Thomas J.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

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

Bible

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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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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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Aristotle

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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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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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig