Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Quarles, Francis

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Thackeray, William M.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Larson, Doug

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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

Proverb, English

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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

Aristotle

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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

Home, Henry

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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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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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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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

Proverb

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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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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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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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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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

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

Holz, Julie