Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

- O'Malley, Austin

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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

10.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Ebers, George

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

15.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

16.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

17.

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

18.

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

19.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

20.

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

21.

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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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

23.

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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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

25.

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Proverb, English

27.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

28.

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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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

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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 is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

38.

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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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

40.

Make friends before you need them

41.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

42.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

44.

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

45.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle