Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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

Hazlitt, William

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

Digest, Readers

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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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.

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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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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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

Proverb

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

Billings, Josh

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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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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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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

Crane, Frank

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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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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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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

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

Breton, Nicholas

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

Epicurus

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.