Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Proverb, English

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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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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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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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

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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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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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Randolf, G.

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Schulberg, Budd

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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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

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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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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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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

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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

Jerome, St.