Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Budgell, Eustace

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Swift, Jonathan

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Bible

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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

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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Digest, Readers

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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

Epicurus

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Alcott, Louisa May