Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

- Bible

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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

Home, Henry

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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

Bible

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Jewish

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Thackeray, William M.

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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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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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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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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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

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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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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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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