Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

- Hazlip, E.R.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

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

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Lee, Robert E.

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, English

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Randolf, G.

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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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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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Walker, Alice

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Mermet, Claude

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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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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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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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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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Make friends before you need them

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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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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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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.