Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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

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

Sallust

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

Powell, John Enoch

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

12.

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

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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

Quarles, Francis

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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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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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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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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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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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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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.

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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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

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

37.

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Aristotle

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

40.

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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

Lamb, Charles

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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

Kaufman, Lois L.