Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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

Lee, Robert E.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

Quarles, Francis

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Toast, Irish

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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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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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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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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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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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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Python, Monty

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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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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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