Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

- Wordsworth, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about 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

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

O'Malley, Austin

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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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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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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 best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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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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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Aristotle

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.