Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Machado, Aaron

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Aristotle

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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Make friends before you need them

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

Byrnes, James F.

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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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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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

Billings, Josh

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Talmud, The

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

Quarles, Francis

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Bukowski, Charles

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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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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma