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

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

Dyke, Henry Van

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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

Lee, Robert E.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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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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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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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

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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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

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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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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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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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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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.