Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Tate, Nahum

Make friends before you need them

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gibran, Kahlil

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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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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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Lamb, Charles

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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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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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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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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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Homer

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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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

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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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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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

Lee, Robert E.