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

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

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

Storey, David

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

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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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Crane, Frank

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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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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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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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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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

Proverb, English

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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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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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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