Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

- Fairbanks, Douglas

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Piper, E. K.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Wycherley, William

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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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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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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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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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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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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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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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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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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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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

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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