Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

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

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hazlitt, William

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Randolf, G.

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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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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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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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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Piper, E. K.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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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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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides