Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Wein, Len

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Joubert, Joseph

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

10.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

11.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

12.

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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

Breton, Nicholas

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

22.

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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

Proverb, Russian

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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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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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

Swift, Jonathan

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas