Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Gibran, Kahlil

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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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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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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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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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Randolf, G.

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

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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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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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

Aristotle

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts