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

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

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Addison, Joseph

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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

Sallust

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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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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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Quarles, Francis

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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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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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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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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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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