Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

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

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

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

White, Somers

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

Proverb, English

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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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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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Thackeray, William M.

40.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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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