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

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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

Storey, David

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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.

Lewis, C. S.

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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

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

Euripides

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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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

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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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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Crane, Frank

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

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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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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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

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.