Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Crane, Frank

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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.

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

Sallust

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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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 the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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 puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Randolf, G.

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

Bukowski, Charles

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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

Wycherley, William

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

Walker, Alice

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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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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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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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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

45.

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William