Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Home, Henry

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

Walker, Alice

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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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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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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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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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Homer

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

Mermet, Claude

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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

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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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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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William