Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

My friends, there are no friends.

- Chanel, Coco

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Chambers, Oswald

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Mizner, Wilson

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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

Proverb

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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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

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

Walker, Alice

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Fuller, Thomas

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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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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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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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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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois