Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Home, Henry

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

... 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

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Ustinov, Peter

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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

Proverb, Arabian

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

24.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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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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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

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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