Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Russian

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

13.

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

14.

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

15.

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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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

17.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

18.

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

19.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

20.

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

21.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

22.

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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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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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

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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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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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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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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

35.

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

36.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

37.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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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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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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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Bible

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

Ebers, George