Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Fuller, Thomas

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Euripides

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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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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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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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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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

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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

Seneca

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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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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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

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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

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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

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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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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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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

Proverb, Arabian

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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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 a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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

Proverb, Indian

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.