Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Blake, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Wycherley, William

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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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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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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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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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

Crane, Frank

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

41.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Quarles, Francis

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius