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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

Fuller, Thomas

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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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

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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

Pepys, Samuel

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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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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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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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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Proverb, English

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

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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

Schulberg, Budd

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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.