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.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Hazlitt, William

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Randolf, G.

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Piper, E. K.

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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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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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Schulberg, Budd

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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