Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

- Quarles, Francis

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Piper, E. K.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Aristotle

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

22.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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

Sallust

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Larson, Doug

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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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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.