Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

- Terence

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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

Yeats, William Butler

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

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

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Randolf, G.

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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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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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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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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 have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Sallust

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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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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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Schulberg, Budd

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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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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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Breton, Nicholas

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hazlitt, William

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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