Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Wycherley, William

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Richter, Jean Paul

There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Homer

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

19.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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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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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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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 difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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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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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Holz, Julie

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo