Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

My friends, there are no friends.

- Chanel, Coco

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Machado, Aaron

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

Epicurus

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

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

10.

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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

Walker, Alice

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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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 those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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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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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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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 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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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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