Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Proverb, Indian

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

Homer

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

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Crane, Frank

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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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

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

21.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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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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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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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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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 friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman