Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Crane, Frank

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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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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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... 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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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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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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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 good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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 is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.