Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

- Addison, Joseph

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

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

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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

Wycherley, William

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Ebers, George

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bible

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

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Lee, Robert E.

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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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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John