Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

- Owens, Jesse

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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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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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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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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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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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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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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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 should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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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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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Lee, Robert E.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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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 like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De