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

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Aristotle

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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 without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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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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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

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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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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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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

Aristotle

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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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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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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

Wycherley, William

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William