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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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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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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Saying, Hasidic

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Sallust

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

Bible

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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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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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish