Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

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

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Joubert, Joseph

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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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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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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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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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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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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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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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 good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van