Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

- Waugh, Evelyn

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Lewis, Joe E.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

Franklin, Benjamin

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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

Randolf, G.

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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

Aristotle

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

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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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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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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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Jerome, St.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Bach, Richard

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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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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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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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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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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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

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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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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.