Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Euripides

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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.

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

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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

Fuller, Thomas

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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 should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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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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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Auden, W. H.

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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

Wycherley, William

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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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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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The time to make friends is before you need them.