Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Wycherley, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Breton, Nicholas

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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.

... 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

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Jerome, St.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Hazlitt, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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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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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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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

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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