Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

- Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hitopadesa

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Homer

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

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

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

Ustinov, Peter

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Bible

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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 is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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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

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

Ebers, George