Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

- Euripides

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Gabirol, Ibn

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

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

Quarles, Francis

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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

FeNelon, Francois

10.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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

Mermet, Claude

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

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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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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 friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

21.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

27.

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

31.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

32.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Digest, Readers

43.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lee, Robert E.

45.

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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.

Randall, Erwin T.

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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

Hubbard, Elbert