Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Mermet, Claude

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bible

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

Aristotle

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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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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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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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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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

39.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Proverb, Spanish

41.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De