Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

- Addison, Joseph

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Storey, David

Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Digest, Readers

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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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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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Terence

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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

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

Euripides

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas