Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Euripides

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

Saying, Hasidic

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

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

Lee, Robert E.

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Proverb

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wycherley, William

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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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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Prentice, George D.

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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