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

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Gay, John

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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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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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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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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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Jewish

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Breton, Nicholas

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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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.

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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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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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

Powell, John Enoch

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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

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

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel