Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

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

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

Quarles, Francis

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Walker, Alice

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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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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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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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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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.

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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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