Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

- Gentry, David Tyson

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Mizner, Wilson

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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.

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

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

Home, Henry

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Crane, Frank

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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.

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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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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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Woolf, Virginia

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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

Breton, Nicholas

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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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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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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