Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

- Kaufman, Lois L.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Proverb, Indian

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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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.

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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

Digest, Readers

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

Powell, John Enoch

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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

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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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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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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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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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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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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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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil