Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

FeNelon, Francois

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

12.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Larson, Doug

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Riera, Dorothy

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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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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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

Lee, Robert E.

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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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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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

Proverb, Russian

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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

Proverb, English

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Ebers, George

43.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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.

47.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Billings, Josh

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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