Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

- Crane, Frank

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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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 an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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

Mizner, Wilson

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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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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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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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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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Proverb, Russian

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish