Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

- Paterson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

Make friends before you need them

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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

White, Somers

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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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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb, Russian

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Bible

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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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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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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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

24.

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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Wycherley, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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In a friend you find a second self.