Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

- Marden, Orison Swett

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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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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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

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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

15.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Seneca

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

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

Gay, John

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

24.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

25.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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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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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.

29.

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

Homer

30.

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Machado, Aaron

32.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

44.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

46.

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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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.