Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Crane, Frank

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aristotle

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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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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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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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Crane, Frank

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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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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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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

Winchell, Walter

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.