Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Life is nothing without friendship.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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

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

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Augustine, St.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Bible

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

Home, Henry

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Walker, Alice

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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

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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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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

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish