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

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

Auden, W. H.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Sallust

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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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.

29.

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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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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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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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.