Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

- Lewis, Joe E.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wycherley, William

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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

Crane, Frank

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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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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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 a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

25.

Make friends before you need them

26.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

35.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

36.

May I always be worth of my friends.

37.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.