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

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

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

Hitopadesa

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

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Saying, Hasidic

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

FeNelon, Francois

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

Fuller, Thomas

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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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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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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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

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sallust

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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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

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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

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas