Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

- Randolf, G.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Joubert, Joseph

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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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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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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

Proverb, Indian

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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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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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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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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

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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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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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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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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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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