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

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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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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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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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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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.

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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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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

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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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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Aristotle

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De