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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Seneca

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Proverb, Indian

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Saying, Hasidic

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Without friends no one would choose to live.

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 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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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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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Mermet, Claude

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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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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Billings, Josh

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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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