Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

- Uris, Leon

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

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

Crane, Frank

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Auden, W. H.

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Dickens, Charles

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Tate, Nahum

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Breton, Nicholas

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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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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

White, Somers