Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Clark, Esther M.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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

Aristotle

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

Branagh, Kenneth

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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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 but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

Terence

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Wein, Len

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

Schulberg, Budd

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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

Gay, John

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William