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

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

Holz, Julie

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Machado, Aaron

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

14.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

15.

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

Joubert, Joseph

16.

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

17.

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

19.

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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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Digest, Readers

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

30.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

33.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

37.

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

38.

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 friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.