Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Ustinov, Peter

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Aristotle

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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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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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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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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 always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo