Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

- Stux, Erica H.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

10.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

11.

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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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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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

15.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Piper, E. K.

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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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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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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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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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 essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

41.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

45.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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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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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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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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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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.