Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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

Larson, Doug

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

11.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

14.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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

Proverb

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

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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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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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

Digest, Readers

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

33.

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

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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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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

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

Mermet, Claude

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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Crane, Frank

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Proverb, Indian

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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