Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

- Eastman, Charles Alexander

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

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

Rothschild, William E.

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

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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

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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.

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bukowski, Charles

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.