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

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Mansfield, Katherine

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, English

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

Billings, Josh

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Saying, Hasidic

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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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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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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Proverb

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Breton, Nicholas

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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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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

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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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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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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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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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De