Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Your friendship is your needs answered.

- Proverb, Danish

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Crane, Frank

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mizner, Wilson

10.

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

11.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

12.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

14.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

16.

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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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

18.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Proverb, Russian

20.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

24.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

25.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

32.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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

34.

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

Sallust

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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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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson