Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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

Wycherley, William

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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

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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

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Euripides

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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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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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gay, John

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter