Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Richter, Jean Paul

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Storey, David

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Budgell, Eustace

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

22.

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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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

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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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... 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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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

35.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Saying, Hasidic

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

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset