Friendship quotes
189 quotes. Authors include A. Powell Davies, Abraham Lincoln, Albert Camus, Albert Schweitzer, Alice Walker, Anaïs Nin, Anton Chekhov, Aristotle, Arthur Ashe, Augustine of Hippo, Baltasar Gracián, Barbara Bush, Basil of Caesarea, Benjamin Franklin, Brooks Adams, Bruce Lee, Chanakya, Charles Caleb Colton, Charles Eastman, Charles Kingsley, Charles Péguy, Christian Dior, Christie Brinkley, Chuck Swindoll, Cicero, Confucius, Dag Hammarskjöld, Dalai Lama, Doug Larson, Ed Cunningham.
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“Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?”
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“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”
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“Your friend is your needs answered.”
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“I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.”
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“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”
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“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”
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“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.”
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“All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire.”
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“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
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“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”
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“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
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“A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.”
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“Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.”
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“Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.”
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“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”
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“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
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“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”
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“Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.”
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“A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.”
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“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”
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“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
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“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
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“Love is a friendship set to music.”
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“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”
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“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!”
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“Friendship is essentially a partnership.”
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“What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.”
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“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.”
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“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.”
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“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
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“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
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“Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”
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“Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.”
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“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”
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“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”
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“Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
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“Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.”
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“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.”
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“Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.”
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“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
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“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
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“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
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“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.”
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“Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.”
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“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
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“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.”
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“In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.”
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“Value your friendship. Value your relationships.”
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“Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.”
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“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.”