Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

- Penn, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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

Machado, Aaron

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

10.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

13.

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

14.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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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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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Aristotle

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Quarles, Francis

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

48.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin