Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

- Tate, Nahum

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Make friends before you need them

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Sallust

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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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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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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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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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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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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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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 friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.