Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Talmud, The

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Python, Monty

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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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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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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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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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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

Saying, Hasidic

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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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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

33.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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