Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Augustine, St.

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Bible

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Bible

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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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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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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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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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

Randolf, G.

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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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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Woolf, Virginia

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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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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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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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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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

35.

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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

48.

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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