Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

My friends, there are no friends.

- Chanel, Coco

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Proverb

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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

Proverb, English

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

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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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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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

Homer

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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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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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Machado, Aaron