Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Tate, Nahum

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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

Proverb, Russian

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Proverb, English

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Lee, Robert E.

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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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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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

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

Ebers, George

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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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.

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil