Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Meltzer, Bernard

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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

Powell, John Enoch

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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

Aristotle

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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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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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

Proverb

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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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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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Wycherley, William

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Make friends before you need them

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth