Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Crane, Frank

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Crane, Frank

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Byrnes, James F.

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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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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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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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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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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Make friends before you need them

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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