Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Branagh, Kenneth

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

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

FeNelon, Francois

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

Crane, Frank

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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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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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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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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May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Homer

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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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

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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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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

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