Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Woolf, Virginia

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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.

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

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Saying, Hasidic

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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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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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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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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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson