Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

- Proverb, Spanish

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Tate, Nahum

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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

Piper, E. K.

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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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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bible

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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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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

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Proverb

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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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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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

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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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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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.