Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Dickens, Charles

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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

Terence

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

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have 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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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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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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

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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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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Rothschild, William E.

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Holz, Julie