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

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

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

Toast, Irish

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

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

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

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Proverb, English

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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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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

36.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

37.

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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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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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Clark, Esther M.

43.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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

Larson, Doug

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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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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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

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish