Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

- Crane, Frank

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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

Bukowski, Charles

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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

Woolf, Virginia

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Make friends before you need them

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Quarles, Francis

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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

Euripides

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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