Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Fuller, Thomas

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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

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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

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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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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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

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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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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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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

Saying, Hasidic

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch