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

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

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

Bible

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

10.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

15.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

18.

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

Johnson, Samuel

19.

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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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

22.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

23.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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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

25.

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

26.

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

27.

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

28.

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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

Quarles, Francis

30.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

31.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

34.

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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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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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

37.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Bennett, Arnold

40.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

43.

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

Piper, E. K.

44.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone