Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Hazlip, E.R.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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

Proverb, Russian

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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.

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

Proverb

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Proverb, Spanish

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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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

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Seneca

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb