Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Saying, Hasidic

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

Python, Monty

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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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

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Aristotle

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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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

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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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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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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

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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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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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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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A friend is known when needed.