Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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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

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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Make friends before you need them

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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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

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb