Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Godospeed, Edgar

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

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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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Digest, Readers

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Seneca

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

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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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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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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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 true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle