Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Thoreau, Henry David

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Billings, Josh

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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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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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Wein, Len

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

Homer

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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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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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Breton, Nicholas

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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