Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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

Bach, Richard

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Waugh, Evelyn