Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Rothschild, William E.

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

Tate, Nahum

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Mermet, Claude

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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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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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Seneca

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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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

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.