Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

- Alcott, Amos Bronson

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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

Clark, Esther M.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

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

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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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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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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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Fuller, Thomas

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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

Mizner, Wilson

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.