Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

- Bukowski, Charles

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Proverb, Jewish

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Crane, Frank

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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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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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Budgell, Eustace

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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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 woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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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.

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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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.