Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Barrymore, Ethel

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Theocritus

10.

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

11.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

12.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

13.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

18.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

26.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

29.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Aristotle

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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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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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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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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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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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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible