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

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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 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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Bukowski, Charles

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Crane, Frank

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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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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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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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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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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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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

Gay, John

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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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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.