Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

- Jong, Erica

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Indian

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

10.

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

11.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

12.

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

Breton, Nicholas

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

16.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

18.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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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

20.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

21.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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.

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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

25.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

30.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

31.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Bach, Richard

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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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

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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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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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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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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

42.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

43.

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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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

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