Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

- Wein, Len

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Mermet, Claude

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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

Bach, Richard

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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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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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Wycherley, William

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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

Toast, Irish

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Bible

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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

Bach, Richard

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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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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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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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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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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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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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 only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis