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

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Barrymore, Ethel

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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

Bible

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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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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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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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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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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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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

Aristotle

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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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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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Lamb, Charles