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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bennett, Arnold

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb, Russian

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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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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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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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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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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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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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May