Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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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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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Bach, Richard

15.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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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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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

22.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

23.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

27.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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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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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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Make friends before you need them

34.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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

Proverb

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

Jefferson, Thomas