Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

- Joubert, Joseph

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Powell, John Enoch

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Crane, Frank

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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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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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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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 good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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

Tate, Nahum

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

Digest, Readers

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

33.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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

Holz, Julie

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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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

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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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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

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von