Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Buscaglia, Leo

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wycherley, William

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

10.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

14.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

15.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

16.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

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

Mizner, Wilson

18.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

19.

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

20.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

21.

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

25.

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

Proverb, Jewish

26.

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

27.

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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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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

Prentice, George D.

30.

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

31.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

32.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Euripides

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

Digest, Readers

37.

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

Proverb

38.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

39.

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

Python, Monty

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

42.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

44.

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides