Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

- Ziglar, Zig

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Bible

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

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

Dyke, Henry Van

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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 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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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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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Proverb, English

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

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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

Hazlitt, William

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

34.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

36.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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

Wycherley, William

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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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

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle