Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Alcott, Amos Bronson

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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

Tate, Nahum

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

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

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

White, Somers

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Proverb

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

Sallust

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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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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb, Jewish

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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

Breton, Nicholas

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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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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Prentice, George D.