Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

- Iacocca, Lee

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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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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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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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

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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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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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Crane, Frank

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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

Proverb, Spanish

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David