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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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

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

Proverb, Sicilian

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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

Crane, Frank

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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 to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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

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

Holz, Julie

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

Chambers, Oswald

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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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

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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

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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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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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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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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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean