Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Kaufman, Lois L.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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

Randolf, G.

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

Epicurus

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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

Hazlitt, William

Make friends before you need them

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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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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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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

Holz, Julie

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

Augustine, St.

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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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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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lee, Robert E.

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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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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