Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

- Rogers, Will

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Woolf, Virginia

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Make friends before you need them

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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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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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

Holz, Julie

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Larson, Doug

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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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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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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

Proverb, Indian

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

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

Blake, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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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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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.

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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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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish