Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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 and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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

Uris, Leon

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Storey, David

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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

Holz, Julie

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Russian

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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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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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, English

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John