Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A good friend is my nearest relation.

- Fuller, Thomas

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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

Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Blake, William

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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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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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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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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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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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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Billings, Josh

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Make friends before you need them

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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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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

Aristotle

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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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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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa