Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

- Proverb, Danish

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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 is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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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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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

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Wycherley, William

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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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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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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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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