Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Pythagoras

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Seneca

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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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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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Make friends before you need them

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo