Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Perry, Ralph B.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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

Digest, Readers

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Hitopadesa

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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.

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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

Crane, Frank

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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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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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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

Holz, Julie

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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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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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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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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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

Tate, Nahum

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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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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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.