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

Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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

Joubert, Joseph

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Spanish

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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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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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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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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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Proverb, English

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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

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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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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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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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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.