Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

- Bach, Richard

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

White, Somers

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

Blake, William

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Saying, Hasidic

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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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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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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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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 well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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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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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bible

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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