Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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

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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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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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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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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Schulberg, Budd

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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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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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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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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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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

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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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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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Proverb, Russian

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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

Proverb, English

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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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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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

Sallust

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

Gay, John

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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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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bach, Richard

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same