Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

- Jerome, St.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Piper, E. K.

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

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Young, Brigham

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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

12.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

13.

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

Crane, Frank

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

Proverb, English

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

16.

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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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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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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

22.

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

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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 is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

32.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

34.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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

Storey, David

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

Crane, Frank

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

44.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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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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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo