Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

- Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Digest, Readers

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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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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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

Proverb, English

28.

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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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 man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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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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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.