Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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

Gay, John

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

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

28.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

33.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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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.

35.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

38.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Euripides

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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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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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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

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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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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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.