Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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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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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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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Powell, John Enoch

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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

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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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

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.