Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Jerome, St.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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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

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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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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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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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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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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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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