Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Jerome, St.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Proverb, Jewish

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

21.

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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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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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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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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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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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.