Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

- Seneca

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Crane, Frank

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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

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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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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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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.

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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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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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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.

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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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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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.