Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

- Wordsworth, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Lamb, Charles

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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

Byrnes, James F.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

10.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

11.

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

12.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

13.

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

14.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

15.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

16.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

17.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

18.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

20.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

21.

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

22.

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

Aristotle

23.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

26.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

27.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

28.

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

Jerome, St.

29.

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

31.

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

32.

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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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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

35.

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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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

37.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

38.

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

39.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

41.

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

42.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

43.

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

44.

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

Proverb, Russian

45.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

46.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

48.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

49.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo