Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

- Mansfield, Katherine

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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 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

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Terence

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

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Hazlitt, William

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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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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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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

Bach, Richard

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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

Proverb, Russian

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

25.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

32.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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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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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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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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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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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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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

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

Talmud, The