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

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

Quarles, Francis

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

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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 world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

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

Bible

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

Lee, Robert E.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Seneca

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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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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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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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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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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Hazlitt, William

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

20.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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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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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

36.

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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

Schulberg, Budd

41.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

42.

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Saying, Hasidic

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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold