Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

- Home, Henry

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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

Ebers, George

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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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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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.

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

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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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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Crane, Frank

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

Sallust

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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

Schulberg, Budd

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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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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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur