Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

- Lewis, C. S.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Larson, Doug

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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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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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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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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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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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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

Gay, John

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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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

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle