Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

- Butler, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Clark, Esther M.

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

Aristotle

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Crane, Frank

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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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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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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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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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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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

Proverb

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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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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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]