Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

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

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

12.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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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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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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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Walker, Alice

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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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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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible