Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Waugh, Evelyn

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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

Winchell, Walter

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

10.

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

Proverb, Arabian

11.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

12.

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

13.

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

Godospeed, Edgar

14.

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

Digest, Readers

15.

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

Homer

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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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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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

19.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

21.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

25.

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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

27.

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

Proverb

28.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

31.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

34.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

35.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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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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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

43.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

44.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

45.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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