Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

- Hazlitt, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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... 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

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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

Aristotle

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Randolf, G.

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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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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

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

Python, Monty

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

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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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