Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about 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.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Prentice, George D.

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

10.

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

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

13.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

21.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

24.

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

29.

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

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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.

31.

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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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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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 book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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.

43.

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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

45.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, 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.