Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

- Proverb, Spanish

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Alcott, Louisa May

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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.

10.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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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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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mermet, Claude

16.

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

Crane, Frank

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

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

Terence

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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

Wein, Len

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

31.

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

Proverb

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

33.

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

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Hitopadesa

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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

Homer

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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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

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

44.

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

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

Bible

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace