Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

- Humphrey, Hubert H.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Jefferson, Thomas

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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

Ovid

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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Make friends before you need them

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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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

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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Holz, Julie

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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

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.