Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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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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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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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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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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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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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

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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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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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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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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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