Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Let your best be for your friend...

- Gibran, Kahlil

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb, Jewish

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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

Lee, Robert E.

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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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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Randolf, G.

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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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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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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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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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 ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Aristotle

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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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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.