Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Crane, Frank

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

Tate, Nahum

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sallust

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Piper, E. K.

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Bach, Richard

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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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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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Crane, Frank

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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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

49.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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