Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

- Belloc, Hilaire

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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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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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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

Lee, Robert E.

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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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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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Uris, Leon

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

Holz, Julie

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, English

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

Terence

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel