Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

- Delille, Jacques

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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

Augustine, St.

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Hazlitt, William

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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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

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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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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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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Crane, Frank

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

Gay, John

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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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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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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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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel