Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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

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

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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Bach, Richard

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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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 horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Make friends before you need them

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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.

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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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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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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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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle