Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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

Wein, Len

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

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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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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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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

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

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Billings, Josh

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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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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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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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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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.