Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Crane, Frank

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gabirol, Ibn

May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Woolf, Virginia

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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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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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Hazlitt, William

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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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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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius