Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Godospeed, Edgar

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Proverb, English

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Quarles, Francis

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

14.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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

Schulberg, Budd

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

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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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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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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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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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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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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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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

33.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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