Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

- Shakespeare, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

Auden, W. H.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Hazlitt, William

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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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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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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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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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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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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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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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

Saying, Hasidic

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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

White, Somers