Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

- Bach, Richard

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Santayana, George

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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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

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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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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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Winchell, Walter

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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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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Jerome, St.

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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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 mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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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.

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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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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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