Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Indian

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... 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

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis 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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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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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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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

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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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 someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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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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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible