Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

- Johnson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

18.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Bible

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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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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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus