Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

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

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bukowski, Charles

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

Seneca

10.

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Holz, Julie

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

Aristotle

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

22.

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

Storey, David

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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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.

25.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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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

27.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

29.

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Walker, Alice

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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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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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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

35.

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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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Uris, Leon

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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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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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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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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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.