Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Mizner, Wilson

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

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

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

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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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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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Talmud, The

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Make friends before you need them

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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 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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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Lamb, Charles

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Tate, Nahum

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

Quarles, Francis

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak