Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

- Proverb, Nigerian

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Epicurus

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

12.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

Aristotle

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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

Quarles, Francis

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha