Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

- Python, Monty

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Richter, Jean Paul

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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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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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

White, Somers

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Machado, Aaron

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.