Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

- Crane, Frank

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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.

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

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Storey, David

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

Bible

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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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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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.