Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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

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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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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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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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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Thackeray, William M.

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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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

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 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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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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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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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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