Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Joubert, Joseph

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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

Bible

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

Holz, Julie

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

Proverb

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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 is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Wycherley, William

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

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

Uris, Leon

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Seneca

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Breton, Nicholas

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Joubert, Joseph

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Tate, Nahum