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

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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.

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, English

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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

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Mizner, Wilson

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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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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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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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.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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