Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

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

White, Somers

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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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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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.

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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