Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Auden, W. H.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

O'Malley, Austin

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

Hazlitt, William

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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.

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

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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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

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

29.

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

White, Somers

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

Breton, Nicholas

37.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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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

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich