Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

- Crane, Frank

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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

Augustine, St.

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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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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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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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

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Epicurus

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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 man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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

Holz, Julie

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

Aristotle

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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.