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

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.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Schulberg, Budd

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

Winchell, Walter

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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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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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Make friends before you need them

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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

Randolf, G.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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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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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.