Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

- Shakespeare, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Prentice, George D.

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

Randolf, G.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Proverb

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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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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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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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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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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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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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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