Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

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

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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

A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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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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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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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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

Epicurus

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Holz, Julie

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Piper, E. K.

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay