Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Auden, W. H.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Wein, Len

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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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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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Joubert, Joseph

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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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

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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.

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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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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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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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

Sallust

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

Breton, Nicholas

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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

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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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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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

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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