Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

- James, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Proverb

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

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

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

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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

10.

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 the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

16.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

17.

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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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.

Ziglar, Zig

27.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

28.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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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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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

32.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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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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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

38.

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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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