Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Randolf, G.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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.

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

Hazlitt, William

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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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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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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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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.

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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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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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.

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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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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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry