Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

- Branagh, Kenneth

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

... 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

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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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 you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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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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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wycherley, William

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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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

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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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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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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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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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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

White, Somers

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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