Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

- Hazlip, E.R.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Wycherley, William

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

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Proverb, Arabian

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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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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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas