Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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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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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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

Talmud, The

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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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

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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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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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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

29.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

40.

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

41.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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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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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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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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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Crane, Frank

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.