Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

- Proverb, Greek

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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

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

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Storey, David

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

11.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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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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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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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Joubert, Joseph

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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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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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

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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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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace