Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Hazlip, E.R.

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

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

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

Barrymore, Ethel

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

10.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

Breton, Nicholas

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Wycherley, 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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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Euripides

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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

Winchell, Walter

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Homer

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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.