Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

- Schulberg, Budd

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Saying, Hasidic

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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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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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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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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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.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Euripides

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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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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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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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 didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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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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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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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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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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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out