Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Clark, Esther M.

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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

Jerome, St.

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

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

12.

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 the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

15.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

16.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

17.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

18.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

19.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

21.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

22.

Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

24.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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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

30.

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

32.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

33.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

34.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

35.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Theocritus

37.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

38.

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

39.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

40.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

44.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

45.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

46.

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

47.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

48.

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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

50.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will