Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

- Bourne, Randolph S.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Powell, John Enoch

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Piper, E. K.

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Lee, Robert E.

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Clark, Esther M.

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil