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

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Dyke, Henry Van

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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

Breton, Nicholas

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

10.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

11.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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

Bible

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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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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Larson, Doug

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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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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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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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.