Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

... 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

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

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

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

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

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Proverb

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lee, Robert E.

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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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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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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.

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Prentice, George D.

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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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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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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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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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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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