Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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

FeNelon, Francois

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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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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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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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Storey, David

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Walker, Alice

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

Addison, Joseph

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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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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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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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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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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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