Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Jewish

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

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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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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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

Randolf, G.

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Seneca

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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

Proverb, Russian

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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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

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

Homer

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.