Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

- James, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Augustine, St.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Crane, Frank

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

Lamb, Charles

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

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

Byrnes, James F.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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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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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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

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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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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Saying, Hasidic

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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