Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

- Ebers, George

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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

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

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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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

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Gay, John

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Lee, Robert E.

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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.