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

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Proverb

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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

Yeats, William Butler

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Aristotle

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay