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 man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

Terence

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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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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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Schulberg, Budd

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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

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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

White, Elwyn Brooks