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

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

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

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

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Crane, Frank

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

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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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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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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

Homer

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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

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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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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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Aristotle

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Saying, Hasidic

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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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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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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