Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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

Blake, William

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

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine