Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

- Humphrey, Hubert H.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Watson, Thomas J.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

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

Walker, Alice

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

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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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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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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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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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

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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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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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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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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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish