Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

Auden, W. H.

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

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

10.

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

11.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

12.

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

13.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

14.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

15.

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

16.

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

Bukowski, Charles

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

21.

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

Aristotle

22.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

23.

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.

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Gibran, Kahlil

27.

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

28.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

30.

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

Young, Brigham

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

32.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

33.

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

34.

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

35.

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

37.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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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.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

40.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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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

42.

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

44.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

45.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

46.

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

48.

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

49.

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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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois