Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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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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 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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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

22.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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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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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.

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

Proverb

38.

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

40.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Saying, Hasidic

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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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

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks