Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

- Nathan, George Jean

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Proverb

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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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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William