Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Talmud, The

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

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

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

Mermet, Claude

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Blake, William

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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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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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Proverb

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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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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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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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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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.