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

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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

Talmud, The

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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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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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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

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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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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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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.