Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

- Crane, Frank

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

Lee, Robert E.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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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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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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