Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

- Bourne, Randolph S.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Mizner, Wilson

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

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

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Larson, Doug

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.