Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Seneca

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aristotle

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

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Richter, Jean Paul

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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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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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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

32.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.