Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

- Johnson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Blake, William

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

Piper, E. K.

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.

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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

Jerome, St.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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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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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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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

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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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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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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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.

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

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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