Quotes
Motivational Quotes About Friendship

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
Euripides
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
Sophocles
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
Robert E. Lee
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus
Your friend is your needs answered.
Khalil Gibran
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
He who hath many friends hath none.
Aristotle
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
Confucius
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Abraham Lincoln
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Thomas Jefferson
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar Wilde
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn
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