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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Dickens, Charles

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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