Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Walker, Alice

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Breton, Nicholas

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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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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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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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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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

Crane, Frank

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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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

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

Epicurus