Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

Pythagoras

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Wein, Len

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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.

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

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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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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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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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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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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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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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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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Uris, Leon

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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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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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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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.

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Holz, Julie