Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Lamb, Charles

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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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.

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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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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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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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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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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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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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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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Crane, Frank

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Barrymore, Ethel