Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

- Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Randolf, G.

Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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.

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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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.

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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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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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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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

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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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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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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

Proverb, English

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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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

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.