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

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Walker, Alice

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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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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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bible

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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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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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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 good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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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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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Young, Brigham

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

27.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

28.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Larson, Doug

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Winchell, Walter

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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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

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

45.

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

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.