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

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.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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 is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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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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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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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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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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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

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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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

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Bible

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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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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.