Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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

Crane, Frank

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bach, Richard

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

Wycherley, William

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

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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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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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

Sallust

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Auden, W. H.

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.