Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Uris, Leon

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Wycherley, William

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, English

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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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