Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Your friendship is your needs answered.

- Proverb, Danish

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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.

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Wycherley, William

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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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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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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

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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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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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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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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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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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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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

Schulberg, Budd

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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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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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