Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Walker, Alice

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

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

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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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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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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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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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Augustine, St.

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Randolf, G.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Aristotle

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

45.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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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

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois