Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

- Homer

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

13.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Proverb, English

19.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

22.

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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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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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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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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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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

Saying, Hasidic

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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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

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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 a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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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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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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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

45.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

46.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gabirol, Ibn

48.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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