Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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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

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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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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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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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 like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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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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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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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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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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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