Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bible

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Bible

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Terence

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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

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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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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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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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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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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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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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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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Machado, Aaron

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