Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Saying, Hasidic

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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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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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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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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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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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