Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Gay, John

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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.

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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

Randolf, G.

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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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 always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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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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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

42.

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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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy