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

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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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.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Tate, Nahum

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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Piper, E. K.

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Proverb, English

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

Santayana, George

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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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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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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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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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