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

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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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 friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Crane, Frank

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Bible

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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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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Machado, Aaron

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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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

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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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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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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.

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

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar