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 always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Saying, Hasidic

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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

James, William

10.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

11.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

12.

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

Quarles, Francis

13.

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

17.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

19.

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

20.

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

21.

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

22.

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

23.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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

25.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

27.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

35.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

38.

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.

40.

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

41.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

42.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

43.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

44.

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, English

47.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

50.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques