Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Proverb, Russian

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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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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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Wycherley, William

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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

Sallust

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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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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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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 one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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

Augustine, St.

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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