Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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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 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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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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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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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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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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham