Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Randolf, G.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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.

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

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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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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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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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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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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

Aristotle

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

Storey, David

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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 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

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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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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

Proverb, English

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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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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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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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

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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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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.