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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

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

Toast, Irish

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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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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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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

Breton, Nicholas

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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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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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May I always be worth of my friends.

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Swift, Jonathan

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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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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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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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.