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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

11.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Breton, Nicholas

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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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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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Euripides

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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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

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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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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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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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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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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

Proverb, Arabian

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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

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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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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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A true friend is one soul 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