Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

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

Randolf, G.

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

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

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

10.

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

11.

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

Walker, Alice

12.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

13.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

14.

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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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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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

19.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

23.

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

Jerome, St.

24.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

25.

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

26.

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

27.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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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

30.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

31.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

32.

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

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Ovid

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

36.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

37.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Aristotle

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

Byrnes, James F.

45.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

47.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Epicurus

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle