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

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.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

Make friends before you need them

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Russian

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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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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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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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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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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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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.

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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

Aristotle

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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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

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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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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.