Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Dyke, Henry Van

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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

10.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gay, John

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Holz, Julie

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock