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

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

Proverb, English

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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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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Woolf, Virginia

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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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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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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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Let your best be for your friend...