Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

- Levinson, Leonard Louis

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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

Branagh, Kenneth

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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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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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

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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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.