Motivational Quotes

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Aristotle

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

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Piper, E. K.

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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

Proverb, Jewish

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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

Crane, Frank

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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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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

FeNelon, Francois

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

Hubbard, Elbert