Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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.

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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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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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.