Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Addison, Joseph

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Proverb, English

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb, Russian

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Holz, Julie

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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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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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

Walker, Alice

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Storey, David

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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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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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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von