Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

- Brookner, Anita

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Bach, Richard

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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

White, Somers

21.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Proverb, Russian

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

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

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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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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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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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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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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