Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Theocritus

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Bach, Richard

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

13.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

19.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

20.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

31.

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

32.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

33.

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

Tate, Nahum

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

35.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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

Ustinov, Peter

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

38.

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 only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo