Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

- Fuller, Thomas

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Edwards, Robert C.

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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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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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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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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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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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

26.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Quarles, Francis

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

33.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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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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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

45.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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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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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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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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

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine