Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

- Jerome, St.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

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

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Larson, Doug

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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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

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Bible

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle