Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Crane, Frank

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

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

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

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

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

Digest, Readers

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

10.

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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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

21.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Proverb

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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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

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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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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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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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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.

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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 have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.