Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about 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

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

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

Billings, Josh

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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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.

Home, Henry

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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

Uris, Leon

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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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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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

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Proverb, Indian

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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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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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett