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

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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

Ovid

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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

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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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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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Wycherley, William

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.