Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Proverb, Indian

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Aristotle

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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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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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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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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting 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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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Crane, Frank

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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

Lee, Robert E.

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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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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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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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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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

Talmud, The

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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

Disraeli, Benjamin