Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Randolf, G.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Watson, Thomas J.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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.

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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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

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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

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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

Tate, Nahum

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, 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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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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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.