Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

- Crane, Frank

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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

Proverb, Arabian

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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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 poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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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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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Addison, Joseph

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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

Byrnes, James F.

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wycherley, William

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Gay, John

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

Lee, Robert E.

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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 most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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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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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome