Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

- Jefferson, Thomas

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Crane, Frank

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Proverb, English

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Larson, Doug

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Piper, E. K.

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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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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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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

Blake, William

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Talmud, The

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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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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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Make friends before you need them