Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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

Wycherley, William

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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

Holz, Julie

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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

10.

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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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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

Proverb, English

19.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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 good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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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

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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

Randolf, G.

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.