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

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

Jerome, St.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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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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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

FeNelon, Francois

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Proverb, Russian

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.