Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

- Byron, Lord

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Randolf, G.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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

Piper, E. K.

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

Ebers, George

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Hazlitt, William

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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

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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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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 a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, English

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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