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

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

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

10.

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.

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

16.

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

17.

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

Piper, E. K.

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

24.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

26.

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

Hazlitt, William

27.

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

Chambers, Oswald

28.

Make friends before you need them

29.

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

Luther, Martin

30.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

31.

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

32.

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

33.

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

34.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

45.

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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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.

Camus, Albert

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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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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

49.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph