Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Machado, Aaron

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Augustine, St.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Python, Monty

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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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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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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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.

25.

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

Crane, Frank

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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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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

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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.

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Fuller, Thomas

36.

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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

Bible

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

Tate, Nahum

43.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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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

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

Proverb, Russian

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

49.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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.