Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

- Saying, Jewish

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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

Larson, Doug

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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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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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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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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Good friends are good for your health.