Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Clark, Esther M.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, 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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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

Terence

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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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 the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

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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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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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

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

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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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May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Proverb

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David