Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

- Wilson, Thomas

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Quarles, Francis

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

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

Proverb, English

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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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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Without friends no one would choose to live.

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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Hitopadesa

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

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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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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De