Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

- Thayer, Mary Dixon

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

Woolf, Virginia

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.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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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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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Mermet, Claude

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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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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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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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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

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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.

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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

Terence

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

Blake, William

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich