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

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

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.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Walker, Alice

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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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

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

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

Euripides

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

29.

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

31.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

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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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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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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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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.