Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Python, Monty

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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.

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

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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 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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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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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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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 true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

White, Somers

26.

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

27.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Machado, Aaron

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

34.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur