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 man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Aristotle

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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

White, Somers

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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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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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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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

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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

Saying, Hasidic

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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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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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.