Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

- Brookner, Anita

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Python, Monty

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Saying, Hasidic

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mizner, Wilson

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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Make friends before you need them

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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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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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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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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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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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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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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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

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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