Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Clark, Esther M.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Python, Monty

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

Euripides

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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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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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Home, Henry

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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Storey, David

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

Saying, Hasidic

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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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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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

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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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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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis