Motivational Quotes

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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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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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

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

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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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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Make friends before you need them

28.

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

Lamb, Charles

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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 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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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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

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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest