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

There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Woolf, Virginia

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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

Piper, E. K.

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

Python, Monty

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

Powell, John Enoch

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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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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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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