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

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

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Holz, Julie

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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Proverb, Arabian

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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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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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Randolf, G.

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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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 one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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