Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

- Crane, Frank

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Darwin, Charles R.

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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.

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

Storey, David

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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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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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

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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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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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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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 Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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

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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 held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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

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

Pythagoras

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson