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

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

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

Ustinov, Peter

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

12.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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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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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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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

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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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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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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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

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

27.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

28.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Powell, John Enoch

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Holz, Julie

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

39.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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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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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George