Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Ebers, George

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

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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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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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Hoffer, Eric

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

Proverb, Indian

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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

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

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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

Mermet, Claude

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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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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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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

Prentice, George D.

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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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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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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Arabian

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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

Crane, Frank

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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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

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Gibran, Kahlil