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

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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

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

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

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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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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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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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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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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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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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Prentice, George D.

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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