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

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Aristotle

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

19.

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

Wycherley, William

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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 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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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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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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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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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

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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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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Clark, Esther M.

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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Sallust