Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

- Walpole, Horace

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Bible

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

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

Billings, Josh

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

10.

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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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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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

15.

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

Proverb, English

16.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

22.

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Randolf, G.

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

31.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Theocritus

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

36.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

39.

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

40.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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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

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.