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

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

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

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Francis De Sales, St.

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

Wein, Len

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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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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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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

Bible

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

Wycherley, William

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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

Crane, Frank

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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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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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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

29.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Piper, E. K.

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Euripides

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, English

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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