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

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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.

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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

White, Somers

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Wycherley, William

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Machado, Aaron

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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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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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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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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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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

Billings, Josh

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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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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Talmud, The