Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Digest, Readers

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

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

Francis De Sales, St.

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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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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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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

Crane, Frank

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James