Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Schulberg, Budd

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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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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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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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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Aristotle

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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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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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Auden, W. H.

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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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.

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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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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Crane, Frank

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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