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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bukowski, Charles

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

Toast, Irish

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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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

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

Randolf, G.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

18.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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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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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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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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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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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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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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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