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

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Toast, Irish

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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

Randolf, G.

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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.

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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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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Euripides

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Saying, Hasidic

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Blake, William

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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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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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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