Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

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

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Home, Henry

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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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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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

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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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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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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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

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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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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

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

Aristotle

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Saying, Hasidic

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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

Piper, E. K.

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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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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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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas