Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Quarles, Francis

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Powell, John Enoch

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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

Bible

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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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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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near