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

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

Holz, Julie

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb

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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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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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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

Crane, Frank

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle