Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Piper, E. K.

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Crane, Frank

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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

Seneca

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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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

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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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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

20.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

21.

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

22.

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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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

25.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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

Pepys, Samuel

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.