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

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Storey, David

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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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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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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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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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.