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

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Lee, Robert E.

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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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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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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

Byrnes, James F.

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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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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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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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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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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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Proverb

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.