Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Powell, John Enoch

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

... 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

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

Chambers, Oswald

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Gay, John

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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 friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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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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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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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.