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

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Bukowski, Charles

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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

Crane, Frank

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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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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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Spanish

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John